Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumOn World AIDS Day, Sanders Demands Affordable Drugs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 On World AIDS Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) condemned price gouging by pharmaceutical companies on lifesaving drugs to treat the disease.
The biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem the crisis is access to affordable drugs, Sanders said. People are dying in America because they can't afford to pay the outrageous prices for medicine they need to live. In the richest nation in the world, we must do everything possible to get people the medicine they need at a price they can afford.
Last year, one in five Americans 35 million people were unable to afford to fill their prescriptions. The price of Daraprim, a drug taken by AIDS patients, was recently increased 5,000 percent overnight.
Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) have introduced comprehensive legislation to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. Their bills would authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and reduce barriers to the importation of lower-cost drugs from Canada and other countries. Sanders and Cummings have also conducted a year-long investigation into rising prices.
The United States is the only major country on earth that does not in one form or another regulate prescription drug prices and the results have been an unmitigated disaster, Sanders said. We must take on the pharmaceutical industry that has been ripping off the American people and pass legislation to lower the cost of lifesaving drugs.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/on-world-aids-day-sanders-demands-affordable-drugs
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)How long will it take to hear from the other side, do you think? I'll start a timer....
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Then they can announce a plan in a star-studded gala! $2,700 a ticket.
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)And I thought my mother was bad....she's still blocked, since Saturday. Tangled with some Hillarites.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Proserpina
(2,352 posts)Proserpina
(2,352 posts)not even Hillary is that Machiavellian.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Bernie!
He always does the right thing.